Page 3: Historical Events In January - 28

1813  Jan Joseph Rosler, composer, dies at 41 on this day in history.   

1814  On this day in history stendahl's 1st book is published   

1815  On January - 28 andrew Jackson Hamilton, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1875   

1817  On this day in history friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen, composer, dies at 55   

1818  On January - 28 george Sewall Boutwell, MC (Union), died in 1905   

1819  Sir Stamford Raffles first lands in Singapore much later a famous Hotel bears his name on this day in history.   

1819  On this day in history sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore   

1820  Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast on this day in history.   

1821  On January - 28 bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica   

1822  Alexander MacKenzie, (L) 2nd PM of Canada (1873-78) on this day in history.   

1824  William Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40) on this day in history.   

1825  George Edward Pickett, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1875 on January - 28.   

1828  On this day in history michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor   

1829  William Burke, murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh on this day in history.   

1830  On January - 28 the opera "Fra Diavolo" is produced (Paris)   

1830  Opera "Fra Diavolo," premieres in Paris on this day in history.   

1831  Henry Brevard Davidson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899 on January - 28.   

1832  On January - 28 franz Wullner, composer   

1833  Charles George Gordon, London, general (China, Khartoum) on January - 28.   

1838  On January - 28 aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [NS]   

1841  On January - 28 the birth of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Sent to find the missing Dr Livingstone   

1841  Henry Stanley, Engld, journalist/explorer (found Livingston in Africa) on this day in history.   

1846  On January - 28 battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India)   

1848  On this day in history king of Naples grants his subjects a constitution   

1851  Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered on January - 28.   

1853  Jose Martí y Perez, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician on January - 28.   

1855  On January - 28 the first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.   

1855  On this day in history william Seward Burroughs, NY, inventor (recording adding machine)   

1858  John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry on January - 28.   

1860  On this day in history britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua   

1864  Battle of New Bern, NC on January - 28.   

1864  Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer on January - 28.   

1865  On this day in history president Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners   

1865  On January - 28 pres Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners   

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1225  Saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274) was born on this day in history.   

1312  On this day in history birth of queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)   

1457  Henry VII, Pembroke Castle, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509) was born on January - 28.   

1540  On this day in history birth of ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)   

1578  On January - 28 birth of cornelis Haga, Dutch lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39)   

1582  On this day in history birth of john Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet (Euphormio's Satyricon)   

1600  On January - 28 birth of clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Pistoia, Italy, 238th pope (1667-69)   

1608  Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer was born on this day in history.   

0814  Charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71 on January - 28.   

1061  On this day in history death of duke SpytihnÄ›v II of Bohemia (b. 1031)   

1119  On January - 28 gelasius II, [Giovannis Caetani], pope (1118-19), dies   

1256  On this day in history willem II, earl of Holland/German emperor (1238, 47-56), dies at 22   

1271  On this day in history death of isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)   

1393  On January - 28 death of earl of Joigny, burned at royal ball   

1443  On January - 28 death of robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France   

1528  Philips of Cleve, ruler of Ravenstein, dies on this day in history.